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Home›Traditions›Pentecostal

Pentecostal Illustrations

The immediate, experiential work of the Holy Spirit and the expectation of spiritual gifts.

Key question: “How does this text reveal the present-day work and power of the Holy Spirit?”

23,933 sermon illustrations through the Pentecostal lens

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The Tree on Riverside Drive

Every morning for thirty-seven years, Margaret Chen walked the same half-mile stretch along Riverside Drive in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She knew every tree on that path....

Psalm 1Universal

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The Surgeon Who Handed Over the Scalpel

In 2019, Dr. Rana Awdish, a critical care physician at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, collapsed in the hallway of her own ICU. A ruptured...

Luke 5:1-11Universal

224 words

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The Hundred-Year Prayer of Herrnhut

In 1727, a small community of Moravian refugees living on Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf's estate in Herrnhut, Germany, was fracturing. Czechs, Germans, and Poles —...

1 Corinthians 1:3-9Universal

223 words

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Monday Prayers in Leipzig

On October 9, 1989, seventy thousand people filled the streets of Leipzig, East Germany, carrying candles. The Communist regime had stationed troops and armored vehicles...

Acts 12:1-11Universal

226 words

Movie Analogy

Finding Nemo: I Promised I Would Never Let Anything Happen to You (Matthew 10:29-31)

In the vibrant depths of the ocean, we find Marlin, a caring clownfish, navigating the waters with a heavy heart. He has already lost his beloved wife and most of his children to the merciless jaws of a predator. Only...

Matthew 10:29-31Universalfearparenting

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The Last Phone Call from the Rubble

In October 2023, rescue workers in Hatay, Turkey — still clearing wreckage from the February earthquake — recovered a cell phone from beneath a collapsed...

Judges 16:28Universal

228 words

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The Quiet Roots of Willowbrook Street

In 2019, Maria Gonzalez watched three houses on her block in East Austin flip to investors within a single summer. Glossy renovation crews arrived. Prices...

Psalm 37:1-11, 39-40Universal

222 words

Vivid Retelling

Water, Blood, and Spirit: The Three Witnesses

A historical reconstruction of 1 John 5:1-21 in its context of churches shaken by schism and false teaching. Examines the three witnesses (Spirit, water, blood) that testify to Jesus as Christ come in flesh, the assurance passages that John writes so believers may know they have eternal life, and the letter's abrupt closing: keep yourselves from idols.

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The Kidney That Changed Everything

In 2019, Marcus Rivera of San Antonio nearly died waiting for a kidney. When his coworker, a single mother named Dana Wilkins, quietly got tested...

1 Corinthians 6:12-20Universal

265 words

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The Map That Was Already There

In 2003, after thirteen years of painstaking work, Francis Collins and an international team of scientists completed the Human Genome Project — mapping the entire...

Psalm 139:1-3, 13-15Universal

237 words

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The Intersection Where They Removed the Stop Signs

In 2009, the town of Drachten in the Netherlands tried something radical. Traffic engineers removed nearly all the stop signs, traffic lights, and lane markings...

Judges 21:25Universal

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The Lamp That Refused to Be Hidden

In 1787, William Wilberforce sat in his garden at Holwood House in Kent, wrestling with a decision that would define his life. Just two years...

Matthew 5:13-20Universal

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Eighty-Six Years and Not One Regret

When Roman soldiers came for Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, in AD 155, the elderly pastor was eighty-six years old. He had spent a lifetime shepherding...

2 Timothy 4:6-8, 17-18Universal

221 words

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The Doorway She Could Not Un-Enter

In 1943, Corrie ten Boom stood in the hallway of her family's narrow house on the Barteljorisstraat in Haarlem, Netherlands. Her father Casper had just...

Esther 4:16Universal

227 words

Movie Analogy

The Way: Daily Acknowledgment Through the Camino - Catholic (Proverbs 3:5-6)

Imagine a misty morning in the Spanish countryside, where the ancient stones of the Camino de Santiago stretch out before you like a winding ribbon of faith. Picture Tom, a weary traveler, as he laces up his boots, the crisp...

Proverbs 3:5-6Universal

311 words

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When a Village Heard Its Own Language for the First Time

In 2022, Bible translators with Wycliffe completed the New Testament in Kakchiquel, a Mayan language spoken by nearly half a million people in the highlands...

Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10Universal

237 words

Vivid Retelling

The Servant King: John 13:1-17

Cinematic retelling of Jesus washing the disciples feet

Universal

686 words

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The Bible Burner of Punjab

In 1903, a fourteen-year-old Sikh boy named Sundar Singh tore a Bible apart page by page and burned it in his courtyard in Rampur, India....

Acts 9:1-6Universal

238 words

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From the Raft to the Runway

In the summer of 1943, Louis Zamperini drifted on a life raft in the Pacific Ocean, sunburned and starving, sharks circling beneath him. The former...

Psalm 30Universal

228 words

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The First Shift After the Badge

When Marcus Powell graduated from the Denver Fire Academy in March 2019, his mother pinned the badge to his chest while his whole family cheered...

Mark 1:9-15Universal

269 words

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The Light in Mammoth Cave

In 2023, a park ranger at Mammoth Cave in central Kentucky led a group of tourists deep into the longest known cave system on earth...

2 Peter 1:16-21Universal

246 words

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The Light That Holds Until Dawn

In 2018, a team of twelve boys from the Wild Boars soccer club and their coach became trapped deep inside the Tham Luang cave system...

2 Peter 1:16-19Universal

232 words

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The Well That Kept Running Dry

In 2018, Maria Santos walked into a community center in Tucson, Arizona, carrying two gallons of water she'd hauled from a distribution point six blocks...

John 4:5-42Universal

232 words

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Forty Feet Beneath the East River

When engineer Washington Roebling began constructing the Brooklyn Bridge in 1870, the most critical work happened where no one could see it. Workers descended into...

1 Corinthians 3:9c-11, 16-17Universal

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